"How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they're forever banned" I feel an apology is in order to everyone, because this is another post that may slightly more than touch on the subject of war. My views on this much discussed subject are simple. It seems to me that intentionally taking away the life of another human being is fundamentally wrong (certainly if they're unwilling, we can save euphanasia debates for a rainy day). Forget about hypocritical politicians, forget about oil, the simple fact is that people will die. By this, I mean all of the people that will die. Including those doing the killing in the first place. A lot of people took part in both protests, and "protests" today where I live. During breaktime at school a number of people from other schools showed up, presumably in an attempt to increase their numbers (I suspect this may have been a "protest" rather than a protest). This didn't please the staff at my school much, neither did the ensuing attempt by a fairly small number of people deciding not to attend lessons. I do feel that these gestures were more to get out of lessons than due to an actual opposition to war, although that is of course a generalisation, and I'm sure some of the people were very genuine. Three fire engines showed up shortly after this, after someone decided that setting the fire alarm off would be an excellent idea for a protest. I wasn't entirely convinced, and I have to think that a lesson on gas-liquid chromatography may have been more useful... Reading through what I've just written, I fear I may not actually have said much, so I apologise for that. But I do think its important for everyone to let people know how they feel. Just hopefully in a more appropriate way than setting fire alarms off (rumours also suggested that protestors set fire to BHS, although I think that may be from rather unreliable sources, and quite what anit-war protestors have against BHS I don't know. any ideas anyone?). Finally, on an entirely unrelated note, Ballboy are playing on John Peel tonight, and I do suggest that listening may be enjoyable (this isn't as unrelated to B&S as it may first appear, allow me to explain. Ballboy are fairly heavily influenced by hefner, and an early hefner single (or EP?) had someone from B&S (can't quite remember who) playing keyboards on the B-side. a tenuous link I agree). Thanks for reading this, its a nice feeling that I may have shared my views with some other people (even if no-one reads this, I'll think they have). Perhaps our representatives in london will have a sudden change of heart. We live in hope. The answer is blowing in the wind. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+